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Holiday spending nears a record in overtime

NEW YORK — Forget the returns line. People hit the stores after Christmas to buy, indulging the rediscovered retail appetite that may have made 2010's holiday shopping season the biggest ever. Revenue for the holiday season is on track to grow at its ... read more

Gas prices reach record levels as Memorial Day weekend approaches

According to GasBuddy, a gas price tracking website, consumers nationwide are expected to pay $2.95 per gallon through the holiday weekend, a 50 cent increase from the same time last year. The increase equates to a consumers spending $1 billion more than ... read more

Paula Simons: NIMBY neighbours vow to block camp for former foster kids in Sturgeon County

For two years, they’ve been working to turn a long-vacant summer camp on the banks of the Sturgeon River, near Fort Saskatchewan ... I’m dubious, though, that spending $4,000 per person on theatre therapy and a Hawaiian holiday is the best use of ... read more

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A Jewish World of Infinite Possibility

They learned it either from an LP, a long-playing record, of Hasidic songs from Bobov, Chabad, or Modzitz that carried warning labels not to play them on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays ... interest in finding Ancient Near Eastern parallels, Buzzy taught ... read more

The 2013 deluge went down in the record books

In the five years since a record-breaking ... Shearer Hills neighborhood near the Olmos Basin. But after seeing the damage wrought by the huge volume of water that passed through the neighborhood that Saturday morning of the holiday weekend, engineers ... read more

Rain drenches parts of Britain after record-breaking 84F bank holiday as forecasters warn thunderstorms are on the way before temperatures plunge to 61F

Commuter Mark Humphris uploaded a picture of the scene near Oxford Street in central London ... Met Office forecaster Sarah Kent said: 'We smashed the records yesterday. It was the hottest early May bank holiday record, both for the weekend as a whole ... read more

Tesla's record first-quarter loss stokes cash concerns, shares drop

The company has been spending heavily to ramp up production of its Model 3 ... But that doesn't put to rest questions about whether Tesla will need to raise more money in the near future. On a conference call Wednesday, Chief Executive Elon Musk said ... read more

17 Things to Do With the Family on a Bank Holiday

Have a paddle: If you're lucky enough to live near the coast ... so a woodland walk is wonderful on either of the bank holiday weekends. Join in with the Woodland Trust's Big Bluebell Watch to record where you spot them, or to discover where you'll ... read more

Queen of Hearts card game legal in Ohio — for now Ohio birth records show the Huber Heights 911 caller and ... have been found in the groundwater at Wright-Patterson and near a Dayton firefighting training site on McFadden Avenue. The material, commonly ... read more

FTSE 100 at record high after trade war truce, but pound hits 2018 low - as it happened

The FTSE 100 rose 1.03% to a new closing high of 7859.17 Germany’s Dax was closed for the Whit Monday holiday France’s Cac climbed ... The FTSE 100 has finished at 7859.17, up 1.03% and a new record closing high. Earlier in the day it touched a new ... read more